Teaching audiences to view films actively
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Hal Hartley
Chris says: “Hal Hartley’s gotten the whole gang back together to complete a trilogy also comprised of HENRY FOOL (1997) and FAY GRIM (2006): Thomas Jay Ryan, Parker Posey and James Urbaniak all reprise their now iconic (in indie film
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Guan Hu
Jason says: “Although MR. SIX isn’t much different in substance to any number of ‘aging tough guy stands up to disrespectful young punks’ movies, it eases the audience into that story with a little more care than is typical, and
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Shunji Iwai
Jason says: “Eleven years ago, Shunji Iwai made HANA AND ALICE, a well-received movie about two high-school best friends smitten with the same boy, praised in large part for the performances by Anne Suzuki and Yu Aoi as the title
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Bill Condon
Jaso says: “One of the interesting things about Sherlock Holmes is that, for as much as he is one of the most iconic and well-defined characters ever created, he rarely subsumes an actor playing the role – for as fine
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: J.C. Chandor
Starring: Albert Brooks | Alessandro Nivola | David Oyelowo | Jessica Chastain | Oscar Isaac
Jason says: “A MOST VIOLENT YEAR was shot from an original screenplay by director J.C. Chandor, but it feels like a highly successful adaptation of a great novel: Painted on a broad canvas, giving a feeling for the characters and
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Rating: 1.75
Director: Stephen S. Campanelli
Jason says: “The title of MOMENTUM is appropriate in a way the people behind the film probably don’t intend; momentum, after all, is a measure of the potential energy of an object that is moving but in a passive, unguided
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Rating: 3.9
Director: Wuershan
Jason says: “There has been a lot of talk, both this weekend and leading up to it, about what a massive global juggernaut STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS would be at the box office and how it was sucking up
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Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: Keiichi Har
Jason says: “Stories about art and artists are fantastic opportunities for makers of animated films, and I suspect that if I knew more about Japanese art, I’d be even more impressed by how MISS HOKUSAI uses it to give its
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Hélène Giraud | Thomas Szabo
Jason says: “One of the most enjoyable parts of this festival (and movie-going in general) over the past few years has been finding kid-friendly movies that brothers and sisters-in-law would deem okay for their girls despite never having heard of
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Rating: 3.9
Director: Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi | Jimmy Chin
Jason says: “The mountain that gives MERU its title is described within the film as ‘the anti-Everest’, although as you might expect, that does not mean that it is a pleasant ascent even for those who get winded by the
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